THE DREAM IN ACTION

As I watched my Feedjit widget and keep a close eye on those who show up in MyBlogLog, I saw an significant increase in readers from outside the US. Which is awesome! I love when I got to the blog of someone who’s avatar shows up in MyBlogLog and their blog is in a different [...]

The VC internet investments have officially slowed down! This chart shows that they are down 16% in Q3. As stated in hundreds of blog posts, the slow down in the economy will undoubted affect the startup world, but just how much is still unknown. There are many things that startups can focus on in order [...]

As I begin to help clients develop a presence on the social web through SocialDreamium, I am put in a position where I need to design solutions to interesting problems. It is my job to help companies use the internet and social software on the web to build communities and gain attention from potential clients. [...]

My guess is that there are more people out there with questions about what the hell is going on in the markets than there are people with answers. True? Do you have more questions or answers? Thought so. TickerHound.com sets out to meet that need head on. In standard forum fashion TickerHound allows people to [...]

With the markets going nuts it is interesting, if not exciting to see what happens each day. In the last two weeks we’ve had record increases and decreases in the US markets. Whether you’re a day trader, a value investor, or “Joe the Plumber”, it can be helpful to know whats going on with the [...]

For my Blog Action Day post I decided to make a loan on Kiva.org. I’ve talked about Kiva.org a bit before. Kiva.org is an organization that facilitates micro-financing in (predominantly) 3rd world countries. Think of Kiva.org as a place that allows you to be a VC with only $100 bucks! Kiva.org has a selection of [...]

In life, both personally and professionally you’re going to have to make decisions. Many say that’s all life is, a series of decisions. Sometimes the hardest decisions to make are the ones where the results of your decisions are all positive. Then it’s not just about making a good decision, it’s about making the right [...]

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This slide show made it’s way around the web very quickly and for good reason. It is shocking but it is a collections of thoughts from some of the best VC in the biz. Business owners and investors alike would be foolish not to head the advice given here. You may have already seen this [...]

At BarCamp Milwaukee last weekend I hosted a session on Startups in the Financial Crisis. It was very well attended and turned out to be an incredibly valuable discussion for a lot of people. (Thanks for all the great feedback!) I wanted to revisit some of the content of that discussion to emphasize what a [...]

Lots of schools have similar programs already.  They just don’t have huge companies.MSOE will pay for your patents, and still rarely anyone takes them up on it. Why? Students aren’t fundamentally trained to think about growing a business using their engineering skills.  Initiatives like KEEN aim to change that. We’ve actually laid a much better [...]

Well, not exactly. But did you know that… Students create interesting idea using university resources. Students create a company and have an exclusive license to use the technology, which they made at their institution. Institution gets bragging rights and extra revenue for the school. For an entrepreneur to promise a large amount of ROI to [...]

This is the first ad for SocialDreamium that I created last night. Please let me know what you think and how it can be improved! Feel free to steal and repost this anywhere. check out SocialDreamium.com

Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day

Tonight I launched a new venture that I’m really excited about. In an effort to get a business going now, that could make money now, but that has a lot of potential for tomorrow, I launched SocialDreamium. SocialDreamium is currently just a consulting service for people who are looking to unleash the power of the [...]